CONOU and the Circular Economy: A 40-year Story
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano CONOU has been collecting and regenerating used mineral oils in Italy for exactly forty years. Thr...
China in 2025: What to Watch
While the year marking the transition to the second quarter of the century carries symbolic weight for many, for China, 2025 stands as a critical moment of assessment and trial by fire. The tariff w...
Journey through the material world: RM54 interviews
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Think Tank section of issue 54 of Renewable Matter offers an in-depth exploration of the ...
Why We Must Proceed Cautiously in the Bio-based Material Transition
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano A few years ago, I remember reading about houses on a Danish island thatched with thick layers of ...
Climate finance: major US banks exit the Net Zero Banking Alliance
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Within just one month, from December to early January, six of America’s largest banks decide...
Biomethane, energy from circularity
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, driven by the decarbonization goals of the Fit for 55 package and the energy cris...
The circular economy of grapes
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From grapes we naturally derive vinegar; it is the art of man that turns it into wine. But it is t...
Circular economy and sustainability: how do we measure them?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Measurement and reporting are crucial to the success and growth of the circular economy, requiring...
COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - The target is 1.3 trillion dollars a year by 2035 to help developing countries mitigat...
Global plastics treaty: is a weak agreement better than none at all?
This article is available also in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The fifth and final round of negotiations (INC-5) for a Global Plastics Treaty begins today, Novem...
Suriname and Guyana, when climate adaptation requires oil money
This article is also available in Italian / Qusto articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Marciano Dasai is the environment minister of Suriname, a small Caribbean country ...
A dual energy dependence between Azerbaijan and Italy: ECCO's case study
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Azerbaijan, the host country of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, is certainly not a positive ...
The return of Trump, how does China feel about it?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano While Donald Trump's victory has been all too clear and straightforward, and even the reasons for ...
Nature-based Solutions amid science and economy: interviews from RM53
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Think Tank section of Renewable Matter Issue 53, dedicated to Nature-based Solutions, features...
Building with Nature in the Netherlands
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Considered among the richest places in the world, delta territories are hubs of innovation, biodiv...
Nature-based Solutions, the importance of definitions
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After centuries of mindless exploitation of natural resources, humankind has recently gained aware...
COP16 on Biodiversity is over, and it was not a success
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - COP16 in Colombia ended a day later than scheduled, amid a blend of disillusionment an...
Disclosure and reporting, the TNFD at COP16 does not convince everyone
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali, Colombia - Reporting and knowledge form the foundations of implementing the Global Biod...
COP16, the gordian knot of biodiversity finance
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano From Cali, Colombia - On the 30th of October a group of 20 ministers from the global south vo...
Bertrand Millot on decarbonizing a multi-billion dollar portfolio
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Can a portfolio worth hundreds of billions of dollars be decarbonized? And under what conditions c...